Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornbyis an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1957
books sick time top
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
bad books
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
book books judged process published quite
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
books either readers respond
I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
books kinds reserve
But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
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I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.
book buy chuck people
If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway.
book desire jokes literary nervous
I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.
books came line people
I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.
book reading journey
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.
book reading waste
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about… But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.
book cry this-is-me
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
smart book people
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!
book mean achieve
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.